Today's news roundup includes the first Wowhead Weekly of 2016, a spotlight on the new Timewalking Dungeon Pit of Saron, and a closer look at some exclusive Blizzard China merchandise.

Wowhead Weekly #63

Wowhead Weekly is back with the first show of 2016, Episode #63, covering Crystallized Fel, Northrend Timewalking, and Warcraft Movie news.

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Яма Сарона was not added at Wrath of the Lich King's launch. Instead, it was added with Цитадель Ледяной Короны, as well as the additional dungeons Залы Отражений and Кузня Душ. These three dungeons help move the story forward--on the Alliance side, you are escorted by Jaina, and on the Horde side, Sylvanas.

Яма Сарона opened on Normal and Heroic difficulty, and both difficulties had epic loot that was better than previous dungeon loot. While the ilvl of the loot is unimportant now, gear from these dungeons had unique appearances for transmog:

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The most important item for transmog related to Pit of Saron is the Quel'Delar weapon. This is acquired by looting a Battered Hilt from any mob in the three Icecrown dungeons, which begins a questline. This quest will take you to Icecrown dungeons, the Argent Tournament Grounds, and the Sunwell.

Комментарий от shimmybee

Комментарий от Sharemydread

I like the Wrath-themed journal. Would totally get it if it comes to the blizzard gear store.

Комментарий от Purgatorywolf

on 2016-01-09T12:23:34-06:00

I don't think Pit is currently scaled properly, it's pretty brutal for a lot of groups, especially ones that try to pull several groups.

-Also, the socks from winter veil are cosmetic.......

Комментарий от shootstokill

on 2016-01-09T12:24:46-06:00

All this quality merchandise and Blizz choose to only import 1 plushy, and a backpack made with chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive defects.

I know for sure most of this will be bought from Blizz, then sold at double the price on Ebay to the EU and US markets.

Комментарий от perculia

on 2016-01-09T12:26:36-06:00

I don't think Pit is currently scaled properly, it's pretty brutal for a lot of groups, especially ones that try to pull several groups.

Blizzard ended up hotfixing End Time Timewalking to have loot scale up higher, since you needed better gear during Cataclysm to run it. Since Pit of Saron is a similar dungeon added towards the end of an expansion, maybe it should be treated in a similar way.

Комментарий от SinAuch

on 2016-01-09T12:33:53-06:00

Any way to get this merch in the states? That Dark Portal and Horde Tower would look amazing on my desk!

Комментарий от Alcest

on 2016-01-09T12:44:24-06:00

Man, lots of cool merch and none of it is available in the states. YEAHOKAY THANKS BLIZZ.

Комментарий от Tyrtun

on 2016-01-09T12:54:31-06:00

That horde and alliance storage box look epic to keep the authenticator, pen drives and things like that *_*

Комментарий от Marilana

on 2016-01-09T13:03:20-06:00

Blizz need to get those Dark Portal and Tower Storage things to the gear store. I'd buy the &*!@ out of those!

Комментарий от sniperorc

on 2016-01-09T13:09:22-06:00

I don't think Pit is currently scaled properly, it's pretty brutal for a lot of groups, especially ones that try to pull several groups.

This 5-man Heroic approaches the pinnacle of Wrath 5-man play. "Pulling several groups" is supposed to be hard; for anyone but endgame geared, it's supposed to be suicidal. Remember, this was when the game was actually challenging: CC mattered, and trash caused more wipes than bosses.

Pit is scaled perfectly, to recreate the actual feel of playing Pit during Wrath. For me, that's a plus. For the newbs who joined afterward, consider it a wakeup call.

Комментарий от Bloodwraith0

on 2016-01-09T13:56:00-06:00

The game is still challenging, if anything the wrath dungeons were easy compared to the Cata ones. Mythic and Challenge mode dungeons exist for a reason.

Комментарий от GatesVengeance

on 2016-01-09T14:26:41-06:00

I want that dark portal replica!~

Комментарий от Aldarix

on 2016-01-09T14:34:12-06:00

Pit of Saron is a rewarding and positively challenging dungeon if people know the strats (i.e. forgemaster). If its only open for level 100 players unlike the other dungeons the difficulty should remain as it is.

Комментарий от Mourning

on 2016-01-09T14:56:34-06:00

I did PoS as the first dungeon this week of TW, no one but me knew or cared about the tactics, so I had a hard time healing the fraggers, I must admit that I couldnt save them all, the hunter died twize :- /

Комментарий от moxiegirl

on 2016-01-09T16:16:05-06:00

A bit miffed to see merch that is now retired from the US store up on that site like the Light Up with Sound plush Hearthstone.Also things that were retired from past Blizzcons are up on that site and not on the US one like the Diablrgrl.

I hope they bring these back to the US stores sometime again.

Комментарий от Ozlem

on 2016-01-09T17:24:04-06:00

I need to stock up on the tissue boxes so I can mail them out to my fallen foes.

Комментарий от guardiantitan

on 2016-01-09T17:28:23-06:00

Pit of Saron is a rewarding and positively challenging dungeon if people know the strats (i.e. forgemaster). If its only open for level 100 players unlike the other dungeons the difficulty should remain as it is.

You do realize you can queue for WotLK timewalkers at level 81, right?

Honestly, I think PoS should scale to 213. Right now, it scales to 200. People might have been 187 or so when going into normal PoS, but normal wasn't that brutal. PoS heroic gear was 232 and equal to some Ulduar 25 drops as well as the lowest T9 version. So why are we walking into what's effectively Ulduar 25 with Naxx 10 loot? Naxx 10 to Ulduar 10 was 200 to 219/226. Naxx 25 to Ulduar 25 was 213 to 226/232. Blizzard underscaling players will only frustrate them. After this event is over, I never intend to do WotLK timewalking again. PoS isn't worth the repair bill. Walk out with 200g in repairs because of the terrible scaling. I have the WotLK timewalking mount so no reason for me to continue doing it. The gear cache from the quest isn't worth it.

Since it's now Saturday and Blizzard hasn't done a damn thing to change the scaling (they fixed End Time in like 2 days), PoS and WotLK timewalking will be off my to do list in the future. I'm not getting a repair bill due to other people's stupidity.

Комментарий от Berl

on 2016-01-09T20:38:32-06:00

Why is this merchandise exclusive to China?

Комментарий от Drakovustus

on 2016-01-09T21:35:42-06:00

I don't think Pit is currently scaled properly, it's pretty brutal for a lot of groups, especially ones that try to pull several groups.

Blizzard ended up hotfixing End Time Timewalking to have loot scale up higher, since you needed better gear during Cataclysm to run it. Since Pit of Saron is a similar dungeon added towards the end of an expansion, maybe it should be treated in a similar way.

I hope they don't change it. People just need to realize that they can't race through it by doing mass pulls, and you need to pay attention to the boss mechanics. It's now my favorite of the event!

Комментарий от Aldarix

on 2016-01-09T21:48:20-06:00

Pit of Saron is a rewarding and positively challenging dungeon if people know the strats (i.e. forgemaster). If its only open for level 100 players unlike the other dungeons the difficulty should remain as it is.

You do realize you can queue for WotLK timewalkers at level 81, right?

Honestly, I think PoS should scale to 213. Right now, it scales to 200. People might have been 187 or so when going into normal PoS, but normal wasn't that brutal. PoS heroic gear was 232 and equal to some Ulduar 25 drops as well as the lowest T9 version. So why are we walking into what's effectively Ulduar 25 with Naxx 10 loot? Naxx 10 to Ulduar 10 was 200 to 219/226. Naxx 25 to Ulduar 25 was 213 to 226/232. Blizzard underscaling players will only frustrate them. After this event is over, I never intend to do WotLK timewalking again. PoS isn't worth the repair bill. Walk out with 200g in repairs because of the terrible scaling. I have the WotLK timewalking mount so no reason for me to continue doing it. The gear cache from the quest isn't worth it.

Since it's now Saturday and Blizzard hasn't done a damn thing to change the scaling (they fixed End Time in like 2 days), PoS and WotLK timewalking will be off my to do list in the future. I'm not getting a repair bill due to other people's stupidity.

If you read my post I said that POS should remain in its current difficulty if it was only open for level 100 players unlike the other timewalking dungeons The official post on the WoW website doesn't indicate this so it would be safe to assume it would be available for 80+ level players. As a heroic dungeon it is actually good to see there is a dungeon that is actually challenging and forces people to understand the mechanics of a fight. The negative is that those 80+ players who are leveling enter a difficult heroic dungeon that creates the chance of wipes not due to their levelling gear but due to their inexperience.

I have run the dungeon twice during this event, once as a tank and once as dps and there have been minimal wipes. Open communication with your party works wonders.